and Oh, Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here on the porch once again

with Dane Mizatani the birds are chirping the wind is blowing and what is it whispering Dane it's whispering football that is on the way next

week very soon we will have football in our lives again with Minnesota Vikings

training camp but I want to start out on the porch by talking about our feelings a little bit here because it's been a tough ride over the last two weeks of Minnesota Vikings, just the organization in general.

And as we get ready to go into training camp, there are so many exciting

storylines that we want to talk about. We'll get into the things that are most interesting to me and you and you and the quarterbacks and all that but over the last couple of weeks quite a gut punch here for this team so how are you feeling about training camp going into it?

Just I think weird is probably the best way to describe it because there's so many layers to this and I guess first I want to talk about

Kyrie Jackson and how it feels so weird to be going into training camp and

going to be analyzing all these little intricacies of the football team when

his loss of life feels so much more important than all that and it just almost feels, like I said, weird.

That's the word I'm using when we're gonna walk into TCO Performance Center.

I'm sure it'll be addressed.

I'm sure the Vikings will have Kyry Jackson on their hearts and in minds and he'll be talked about and then we're just going to shift to football and and I guess that's just kind of the machine of the NFL and the thing just keeps going.

But that's kind of where I'm at is like, like has enough time passed and like to just be able to just talk about football in a very pragmatic way when the

backdrop is this this tragedy of this kid who worked his ass off to get here and he won't get to see it through.

So it's weird for me there from the starting point and then you layer in Jordan Addison getting arrested on on DUI over the weekend

layering that with with the tragedy of Kyrie Jackson investigators in Maryland think that it was alcohol related.

I guess DUI could mean anything for Jordan Edison.

It could mean alcohol, it could mean marijuana. The point being he put himself in harm's way, he put others in harm's way by deciding to get behind the vehicle when he was under the influence of some sort of substance.

And I just don't know how you can do that, how your mind can get to go there

when your teammate just died two weeks ago.

So that adds another layer of weirdness of tension

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